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101. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Suicide Risk: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary48/suicide-risk-screening
     May 15, 2004 - archived Final Evidence Summary Suicide Risk: Screening May 15, 2004 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. …

102. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Suicide Risk: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary48/suicide-risk-screening-2004
     May 15, 2004 - Share to Facebook Share to X Share to WhatsApp Share to Email Print archived Final Evidence Summary Suicide Risk: Screening May 15, 2004 Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. They should not be constru…

103. Archived: Glaucoma: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/glaucoma-screening-2013
     July 15, 2013 - Most studies did not blind personnel who interpreted test results to the findings of the reference standard

104. Final Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-adolescents-adults-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     May 16, 2024 - same high school) Comparators KQs 1, 3: No screening or usual care KQ 2: Comparison with reference … standard (i.e., structured or semistructured clinical interview) KQs 4, 5: No intervention Usual

105. Archived: Evidence Summary: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening
     January 15, 2011 - standard (ie, cycloplegic refraction) Exclude studies that do not attempt to perform the reference … standard, performed regardless of test results Reference standard interpreted independently of screening … screening test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening … standard; screening test improperly administered; biased ascertainment of reference standard; very small … Standard Reference Standard Applied to All Screened Patients Same Reference Standard Applied to

106. Archived: Evidence Summary: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening-2011
     January 15, 2011 - standard (ie, cycloplegic refraction) Exclude studies that do not attempt to perform the reference … standard, performed regardless of test results Reference standard interpreted independently of screening … screening test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets reference standard independently of screening … standard; screening test improperly administered; biased ascertainment of reference standard; very small … Standard Reference Standard Applied to All Screened Patients Same Reference Standard Applied to

107. Screening for Suicide Risk in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/cJSpoZqW2M7czx_-GeTdtE
     May 01, 2004 - Screening for Suicide Risk in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence Suicide is a major public health problem in the United States. In 2001, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for approximately 30,000 deaths with an age-adjusted rate of 10.7 per 100,000 persons.1 Suicide accounts …

108. Screening Adults for Bladder Cancer: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/L5UwXoftg4JHw4buVDhjUT
     October 01, 2010 - Studies of diagnostic accuracy that did not perform the reference standard in patients with negative … standard (cystoscopy) Excludes case series and nonsystematic reviews www.annals.org 5 October 2010 … standard and is done regardless of test results Reference standard is interpreted independently of the … test; uses a credible reference standard; interprets a reference standard independently of the screening … standard; the screening test is improperly administered; has a biased ascertainment of the reference

109. Final Research Plan: Pancreatic Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/pancreatic-cancer-screening
     August 17, 2017 - radiation therapy Chemotherapy or palliative care alone Comparisons KQ 1: No screening KQ 2: Reference … standard (e.g., clinical followup) KQ 4: No treatment or delayed treatment Comparative effectiveness … Randomized, controlled trials; controlled clinical trials KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies with a reference … standard; systematic evidence reviews KQs 3, 5: Randomized, controlled trials; controlled clinical

110. Draft Research Plan: Screening for Colorectal Cancer | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/colorectal-cancer-screening3
     January 03, 2019 - screening or alternate screening strategy KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies must use colonoscopy as a reference … standard KQ 3: No comparator necessary   Outcomes KQ 1: Colorectal cancer incidence … Poor-quality studies KQ 1: Decision analyses * KQ 2: Diagnostic accuracy studies without a reference … standard or without representation of a full spectrum of disease (e.g., case-control studies, excluded

111. Evidence Summary: Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
     October 23, 2018 - Only studies that compared a screening tool with an acceptable reference standard, such as the Conflicts … standards to establish screening test accuracy: Composite Abuse Scale, CTS or CTS-2, and Index of Spousal … One study 25 used a semistructured interview as the reference standard to determine the presence of … standard negatively, since disclosure of violence may be uncomfortable. … standards; handling of missing data was unclear (incomplete questionnaires) was often not reported;

112. Methods and Processes | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes
     June 01, 2019 - Read the Procedure Manual   Standards for Guideline Development Learn how the Task Force’s processes

113. Archived: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening-2009
     December 15, 2009 - Screening Tests Standardization of film mammography has led to improved quality. … Refer patients to facilities certified under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), listed at … No standard approach or reporting standards are in place. … Standardization of mammography practices enacted by the Mammography Quality Standards Act have led to … Clinicians should refer patients to Mammography Quality Standards Act-certified facilities, a listing

114. Evidence Summary: Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/ocular-prophylaxis-for-gonococcal-ophthalmia-neonatorum-preventive-medication
     January 29, 2019 - staff provided project oversight, reviewed the report to ensure that the analysis met methodological standards

115. Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/vNNEgX2uX_Svr5zwVfDdAh
     November 18, 2014 - accuracy is difficult to determine because of the lack of studies that use an internationally recognized reference … standard and the lack of consensus on the laboratory values that define vitamin D deficiency.

116. Update on Methods: How To Read the New Recommendation Statement | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/update-methods-how-read-new-recommendation-statement
     April 01, 2019 - Important changes include standardization of the format of the summary statement to specify what service … is being recommended in what population; standardization of the headings in the rationale section; a

117. Final Research Plan: Glaucoma: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/glaucoma-october-2022
     August 13, 2021 - U.S. practice Comparisons KQs 1, 2: No screening KQ 3: No referral KQs 4, 5: Reference … standard for open-angle glaucoma (as defined in the studies) KQs 6–11: Placebo, no treatment, or

118. Final Research Plan: Screening for Glaucoma | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/glaucoma-screening-adults-older-adults
     August 13, 2021 - U.S. practice Comparisons KQs 1, 2: No screening KQ 3: No referral KQs 4, 5: Reference … standard for open-angle glaucoma (as defined in the studies) KQs 6–11: Placebo, no treatment, or

119. Final Research Plan: Screening for Primary-Angle Glaucoma | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/primary-angle-glaucoma-screening
     August 13, 2021 - U.S. practice Comparisons KQs 1, 2: No screening KQ 3: No referral KQs 4, 5: Reference … standard for open-angle glaucoma (as defined in the studies) KQs 6–11: Placebo, no treatment, or

120. Evidence Summary: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary19/colorectal-cancer-screening
     May 18, 2021 - For KQ2, test accuracy studies that used colonoscopy as the reference standard were included. … Although studies evaluating stool-based tests using a colonoscopy reference standard for all persons … standard (n = 3503) 3 Studies, registry reference standard (n = 15,969) CRC: Sensitivity range … standard (n = 122,370) 18 Studies, registry reference standard (n = 2,824,358) CRC: c Sensitivity … not evaluated in more than a single study using colonoscopy reference standards High Estimates apply